Imagination Shapes Reality

Happy Pi Day (3.14, March 14)

We’ve been celebrating Pi (π) Day for half a decade or so now, but some of you may be new to the idea. At the very least, it is an excuse to eat pie, and on the other end of the spectrum it is a great day to celebrate math and the beauty of nature in numbers.

There are many crafts and activities to do for those with kids. Drawing and cutting out and measure circles with paper and string is all it takes to get started. Don’t be shy about working in some physical activity too — maybe do a 3.14km hike?

A new discovery for me this year is the Pi Search Page which instantaneously finds a series of digits in the first 200 million digits of pi. My 8 digit birthday occurs three times in those first 200 digits, while my wife’s only occurs once. Try it out with any other ‘special’ numbers to you and see what you find. Irrational.